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Germany Faces Autumn Transport Crunch With Hamburg Closures, Berlin A100 Limits, and A59 Shutdown

Officials anticipate severe delays across key corridors as maintenance and safety work converges in October.

Overview

  • Hamburg’s A7 Elbtunnel will be fully closed in both directions for 55 hours on Oct. 17–20, Nov. 7–10 and Dec. 5–8 for sign-bridge work, a tunnel software update, noise protection, lane expansion to eight lanes and the A26 link, with wide detours via A1/A21/B205.
  • Köhlbrandbrücke in Hamburg shuts from Friday, Oct. 10 at 22:00 to Monday, Oct. 13 at 05:00 for urgent repairs, with police warning of major congestion despite signed diversions in the port area.
  • In Berlin, Autobahn GmbH will close the outer lane on the A100 over Mecklenburgische Straße toward Dreieck Funkturm and the Detmolder Straße on-ramp from Friday at 10:00 until further notice due to concrete spalling and corrosion, with a truck overtaking ban and investigations expected through November.
  • Construction of the new Ringbahnbrücke starts Oct. 20, and Deges has announced extensive closures at Autobahndreieck Funkturm from Oct. 30 at 22:00 to Nov. 3 at 05:00, including no A115-to-A100 connection toward Hamburg, no Halenseestraße Ost/Messedamm access and a northbound Messedamm shutdown.
  • NRW’s A59 toward Leverkusen will close from Oct. 15 at 21:00 for roughly eight months, with authorities planning traffic-control measures and urging drivers to use the signed long-distance detours via A46, A3, A57 and A542.